Joint Tufts / CfA / MIT
Tuesday Cosmology Seminars

Fall 2008

The seminar rotates between the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, MIT and Tufts. The organizers are Douglas Finkbeiner (dfinkbei@cfa.harvard.edu), Alison Farmer (afarmer@cfa.harvard.edu), and Jonathan R. Pritchard (jpritcha@cfa.harvard.edu) at the CfA, Alan Guth (guth@ctp.mit.edu) at MIT, and Alex Vilenkin (vilenkin@cosmos2.phy.tufts.edu) at Tufts.

Seminars

Date Speaker Title Options
September 23
At Tufts, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm		 No seminar
  
September 30
At MIT, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm		 Justin Khoury
Perimeter Institute 		Gravity on the Largest Scales and Cosmic Acceleration
October 7
At Tufts, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm		 Leonardo Senatore
Institute for Advanced Study 		The Volume of the Universe after Inflation and de Sitter Entropy
October 14
At CfA (Phillips Auditorium), 2:30 pm
 Neal Dalal
CITA 		A Simple Model for DM Halos
October 21
At MIT, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm		 Alexander Vilenkin
Tufts 		Holographic Multiverse
October 28
At Tufts, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm		 Levon Pogosian
Simon Fraser University 		Strings in the Background
November 4
At CfA (Phillips Auditorium), 2:30 pm
 Leonidas Moustakas
JPL 		Strong Gravitational Lensing Probes of Dark Matter
November 11

 No seminar (Veterans Day)
  
November 18
At MIT, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm		 Andrew Frey
McGill University 		Cosmic Compactification: Cosmology and the Importance of Dimensional Reduction
November 25
At CfA (Phillips Auditorium), 2:30 pm
 David Tucker-Smith
Williams College 		Inelastic dark matter and DAMA/LIBRA
December 2
At Tufts, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm		 Michael Salem
Tufts University 		The scale-factor cutoff measure on the multiverse
December 9
At MIT, 2:30 pm
Refreshments at 2:00 pm		 Daniel Baumann
Harvard 		Advances in Inflation in String Theory
December 16
At CfA (Phillips Auditorium), 2:30 pm
 Priya Natarajan
Yale and CfA 		Cosmology with Gravitational Lensing

Where and when

Unless otherwise noted, the seminars at all three institutions are on Tuesdays at 2:30 pm. The seminars at the CfA are also part of the Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC) Seminar series.

Unless otherwise indicated, the seminars are held at:

TUFTS: Robinson Hall, Room 250
(refreshments are served at 2:00 in the Knipp library, Robinson Hall, 2nd floor)

MIT: Center for Theoretical Physics Cosman Seminar Room, Fourth Floor, Building 6C, Room 6C-442
(refreshments are served at 2:00 in the same room)

CfA: Phillips Auditorium, Building D, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge.

Send suggestions or comments to guth@ctp.mit.edu.

Last modified: Saturday, February 7, 2009 11:19 pm